WordPress 2.7 has finally been made available for download for stand-alone installation. The developers have worked a lot with the admin interface in this version; and the result is, in my opinion, really nice! I’ve always liked the WordPress platform in itself; but the admin panel has been so-so. I strongly encourage you to check it out. You can do so by creating a free account at wordpress.com or by downloading it, also free, from wordpress.org/download if you’d like to install it on your own machine/server or at your hosting provider (WordPress requires PHP and a MySQL server to work).